Devotionals

Spurgeon's Daily Devotionals - Evening Edition

February 1

"Thy love to me was wonderful." - 2 Samuel 1:26

Come, dear readers, let each one of us speak for
himself of the wonderful love, not of Jonathan, but of Jesus. We will not relate
what we have been told, but the things which we have tasted and handled-of the
love of Christ. Thy love to me, O Jesus, was wonderful when I was a stranger
wandering far from thee, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind.
Thy love restrained me from committing the sin which is unto death, and withheld
me from self-destruction. Thy love held back the axe when Justice said, "Cut it
down! why cumbereth it the ground?" Thy love drew me into the wilderness,
stripped me there, and made me feel the guilt of my sin, and the burden of mine
iniquity. Thy love spake thus comfortably to me when, I was sore dismayed-"Come
unto me, and I will give thee rest." Oh, how matchless thy love when, in a
moment, thou didst wash my sins away, and make my polluted soul, which was
crimson with the blood of my nativity, and black with the grime of my
transgressions, to be white as the driven snow, and pure as the finest wool. How
thou didst commend thy love when thou didst whisper in my ears, "I am thine and
thou art mine." Kind were those accents when thou saidst, "The Father himself
loveth you." And sweet the moments, passing sweet, when thou declaredst to me
"the love of the Spirit." Never shall my soul forget those chambers of
fellowship where thou has unveiled thyself to me. Had Moses his cleft in the
rock, where he saw the train, the back parts of his God? We, too, have had our
clefts in the rock, where we have seen the full splendours of the Godhead in the
person of Christ. Did David remember the tracks of the wild goat, the land of
Jordan and the Hermonites? We, too, can remember spots to memory dear, equal to
these in blessedness. Precious Lord Jesus, give us a fresh draught of thy
wondrous love to begin the month with. Amen.